SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. Knowing the common pitfalls won’t stop you or your team from making them, but it will help build the most important skill any manager can have: resiliency. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. As everyone left to work for an investment bank in California or New York that summer of ’99, I went to work at a startup in Ann Arbor. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. We have team selling here that extends beyond the sales team.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The other thing we know is that customers generally don’t buy without getting a reference whether it’s a backdoor, it’s a front door reference. Being able to utilize these champions as references as well. Well then that person who was the key reference because it was a person, not the company leaves.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And what better way to develop this other than enlisting the help of an expert digital strategy consultant who can do a broad set of activities, each of which is directed towards helping you meet your goals. As a result, you can build long-lasting relationships by giving customers higher value for their investment.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How can leaders both be authoritative and vulnerable simultaneously?

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 124

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 8, 2021

What’s your biggest weakness? A candidate who can’t give me a real answer may not be open to feedback or may lack the humility I want to see on my team.”. If you asked your boss, a peer and a direct report what your biggest strength and your biggest weakness are, what would each of them say?’ It’s just not productive.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

APRIL 10, 2017

Many companies are investing in the creation of sales enablement teams, but as they’re so new, there’s a distinct lack of thought leadership, standardised measurement and best practices available. Put simply, as a sales organisation grows, the sales enablement team must evolve alongside it.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MAY 22, 2017

It will evolve over time, but for now it offers much needed clarity and perhaps more importantly, answers the basics of who we are as a sales enablement team, what we do and how we do it. I would also recommend persona development , so the sales organisation clearly understands who they’re selling to.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity Sales, Marketing, or Product team without a designated operations function. Beloved by their tactical peers, operations brings needed order and logic to busy, results-oriented teams. Poor strategy, organization, and execution hurt your productivity and therefore your scalability.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Outreach allows you to commit to accurate sales forecasting, replace manual processes with real-time guidance and unlock actionable consumer intelligence that guides you and your team to win more often. For every member that’s referred by another member, we’ll plant 250 trees. We’re also brought to you by Pavilion.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. Andy MacMillan: I started my career in tech actually as a developer. I don’t subscribe to the servant leadership model. How does Andy think about discounting?

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Learn how Pendo built a product, team, and culture in its Raleigh hometown that could scale coast-to-coast and continent-to-continent. They talked to all the customers, they did reference calls and turns out they said really, really good things about us and lo and behold it led to our series A. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

Customer Success teams are in a unique position to listen to their customers’ challenges. To increase customer retention in the next wave, train your Customer Success team to listen to what the customer says they need to find the right solution for them. Don’t labour on the pain, always move the conversation toward the future.”.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. Kyle was in charge of creating the Austin, Texas sales team @ Dropbox, what were some of his biggest lessons when it comes to moving sales outside of HQ? What worked? What did not work?

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As companies have started understanding the benefits of customer success, they have started rushing into the field in the hope of getting quick returns on their investment. Not only investment but a change in mindset along with continuous efforts from the whole team is required to get exponential results.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Sales leaders have a bad habit of dumping people into a new job without properly preparing them to succeed. Although I went through two weeks of training with my team, they were underwater too. I’m going to share my top 20 sales onboarding secrets to help your team beat their 30-60-90 day plan. So tune in….

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Maria : Yeah, I think, coming from a marketing side and thinking about that as a marketer, marketing is all about investments. There’s none of the brands that you’ve seen get to an IPO or continue on to a Fortune 500 company that is not making some significant investments there. Aaron : And they just have to do it.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

I came back to North America, we built out the inside sales team in North America over the next five years, building hubs in multiple countries, including in Bangalore, India, and assembling a global community of practice. We would generate 10 X like what we invested into that based on those people. So it was a fabulous experience.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. Maria : Not too bad. They’re investing in growth. So I think that’s contributing to this importance of kind of investing in marketing and sales. Maria : Thank you.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

In my experience, getting caught up in shiny objects (like great numbers) during the hiring process is a straight line to Disasterville, and when the cost of a bad hire is painfully significant , it pays to take a measured approach. Also: What are the top performers in my current team doing? This is a team effort.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. How does leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale? How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership? Missed the session?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Which is why customer feedback is a big deal to all of our teams – it’s really integral to what we do and how we build. we’ll be answering that by chatting with the people that make it happen: the R&D team members who take your feedback and turn it into the tools that you use. Then this podcast has the answers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Eghbal offers a new taxonomy of communities — including newer phenomena such as “stadiums” of open source developers, other creators, and really, influencers — who are performing their work in massive spaces where the work is public (and not necessarily participatory). But it really does just refer to the distribution side of code.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale Development 79

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Kolton Andrus is the Founder & CEO @ Gremlin, the failure as a service startup finds weaknesses in your system before they cause problems. Dylan Serota , Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer @ Terminal, the startup that helps you create world-class technical teams through remote operations as a service. What are the pros and cons?

Education 108

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And that was probably one of the things you invested your time in earliest. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the episode.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And that was probably one of the things you invested your time in earliest. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the episode.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 11, 2019

And if you feel there is a lack of support or poor management, you might see the writing on the wall. If everyone on the sales team is missing quota, organizationally, you might be set up to fail. When it leaves both you and your sales team in a good place moving forward. Of course, it might not be you at all. Find that person.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Anna Khan: Since then, we’ve become good friends and he’s been a CEO reference for me in building my portfolio. We collectively as a company were fortunate in doing all those things and, boy, was it a heck of a team effort, and it was a lot of fun. We definitely have a saying at SendGrid, “It’s we, not I.”

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 27, 2020

Whether you run a one-person sales enablement program or are part of a team, the sheer scope of the job can be overwhelming. Now here’s where it can get challenging: you serve the revenue-producing employees, sure, but you do it to help your executive team achieve their goals. I hear you. Sales enablement strategy. How do you do this?

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me.

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Hull

JANUARY 12, 2020

In a B2B buying cycle, the single customer view could refer to rolling the data up on each individual or on each company. This unified customer profile acts as a single source of truth from where key internal team stakeholders can view and access important information about a customer. Mitigating costs.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

263: Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention. But with it comes immense benefits and competitive advantages such as the diversification of ideas, speedier product development, and representation in important regions and time zones.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 30, 2017

This is a goal I share with HubSpot’s sales leadership - indeed, I’m a firm believer that shared goals are the one true way to drive alignment between teams. Here’s something that is uncommon within the world of sales enablement and learning and development (L&D). In addition to hitting quota, I also carry a revenue goal.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Why does Liat reject the notion of “hands off leadership?”. As for Liat, prior to Airtable, she was the Chief Revenue Officer @ Assist.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

She’s now a consultant helping VPs of Sales scale and build their sales teams. She’s also been a high-performing individual contributor — she was part of the team that drove a lot of growth at HubSpot as it went from small to large, and she worked under Mark Roberge. What You’ll Learn. Who is Mary Rogul. Mary, welcome to the show.

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